Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest
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We started discussing what was the future of this place. In october of 2009 i came with my crew for three days just as an experiment and film in the city just as an outsider. Talked to a few people. Absolutely riveretted by the people and the plays. I thought theres definitely a movie here. We need to make a film in detroit. Host when impacted, i read your father had an impact on you watching him and his business over the years. Guest , thats right, my father is had a manufacturing company. He really like in the 1980s with the rise in japan had to innovate and come up up with new ideas and making it difficult to create products. He started engineering complicated things that couldnt be replicated or stolen or easily made overseas. Thats now his business arrived. I kind of had a front row seat to what it was like going you in the 1980s. How he survived was interesting it was all about being nimble and innovative. Which i think detroit needs and the rest of the country pretty much needs
Connection. I had never considered making a film in detroit, or one with any personal ties to myself. Mike codirector and i started talking about a detroit in late 2008. Things seemed to be getting worse. It was already bad in the 1980s. In lot of people i knew were leaving. In october of 2009 i came with my crew for three days just as an experiment and film in the city just as an outsider. Talked to a few people. Absolutely riveretted by the people and the plays. I thought theres definitely a movie here. We need to make a film in detroit. When impacted, i read your father had an impact on you watching him and his business over the years. Thats right, my father is had a manufacturing company. He really like in the 1980s with the rise in japan had to innovate and come up with new ideas and making it difficult to create products. He started engineering complicated things that couldnt be replicated or stolen or easily made overseas. Thats now his business arrived. I kind of had a front ro
Brothers. They were adamant to keep their products made in the United States. However, i would say the vast majority, Something Like 60 of my fathers went out of business. Partly because of it was just cheaper to make things overseas. How many documentaries have you done before this one . A lot. Ive been making films over ten years. This is our fifth documentary feature off of theaters. We made a lot of small and large Television Products for hbo. We make our living in the nonfiction world which is rare and lucky. Are you based . New york city. Which of those documentaries made it biggest . Jesus camp. We made a film called jesus camp. We lost to al gore convenient truth. We all knew we were going to lose. It really sort of struck a nerve. It was really a look at the evangelical right through the eyes of children who are being home schooled and creationism, etcetera. It was at that time in 2007 a real window into this world. We impact judgment on the kids. Sort of put a face on the nam